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CVE-2024-7492: MainWP Child Reports <= 2.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Options Update

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The MainWP Child Reports plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the network_options_action() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary options that can be leveraged for privilege escalation via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This is only exploitable on multisite instances.

Affected products

• MainWP Child: before 2.2.1 — fixed in 2.2.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MainWP Child 2.2.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mainwp-child-reports/trunk/classes/class-network.php#L346
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3131718%40mainwp-child-reports&new=3131718%40mainwp-child-reports&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file4
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cdd7971c-6f1c-437a-832c-e2b2817a197e?source=cve

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